Solar panel removal, reinstall & repair in Union County, GA

On the ground in Union County

Permits, power and roofs in Union County

Union County's Building and Development department issues building permits and handles inspections, and Blairsville, the only incorporated city, can say whether an in-town address belongs to it instead. Blue Ridge Mountain EMC, based in Young Harris, buys its power from the TVA and sets its own terms for generation its members own, so the co-op is the place to ask before a system goes back online. Housing is a mix of retirement homes, cabins and older farmhouses, many with steep standing-seam or exposed-fastener metal, and a good number sit above long, steep gravel drives. Brasstown Bald, the highest point in Georgia, rises in the southeast corner, and the ridges around it see real winter: ice that builds on panels, snow that slides off them at once and wind through the gaps.

Around Lake Nottely, which is largely Forest Service shoreline, the lake homes that do exist sit on steep lots where getting panels down means long carries by hand. In Suches, Choestoe and Ivy Log, homeowners run into leaks at roof penetrations, lightning-damaged inverters and systems whose installer closed. Near Vogel State Park the hardwoods shade more of the roof each summer.